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My Lawn Mower is on Vacation
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Posted by britania 8a (My Page) on Thu, Jul 28, 05 at 11:07
| Well, to begin with, the lawn mower went on the "blink" while my fertilized lawn began to grow & grow & grow. I didn't have enough cash or time to take it to the "Lawn Mower Doctor" and so I put my electric black and decker trimmer/edger to use. Even though my arms were aching after the job was done, the lawn looks beautiful and the grass looks healthier.
I sure didn't miss pushing the gasoline guzzler, hearing the deafening motor noise, inhaling the gas fumes, emptying the lawn mower bag, checking for oil and gas levels, etc., etc., etc. Get the picture? I think I'll work on the back tonight:- ) |
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| wow! how big is your yard? i salute your determination! amanda |
RE: My Lawn Mower is on Vacation
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| Smiling, because once when I lived in the country with a two acre yard and a 1/4 acre veggie garden, my mower went on the fritz and I had to use my electric weedwhacker to just cut around the house and make a path out to the garden for a month before I could get it fixed. Necessity is the mother of invention. |
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Ha I have so little 'lawn' left that I always weedwack the yard. I keep laying down newspaper and planting flowers and darned if the lawn doesn't simply disappear ;o)
In truth it a 20 minute job up front and the back is all garden now. The only negative is now I've no grass trimmings for the compost pile!
Mike |
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| I'm working on making my lawn disappear. I hate grass! |
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| amandasmith911 - I'm lucky, my lawn is only quater of an acre bruggirl100 - You're right. That's how the majority of our inventions have come about. Also, if you want your lawn to dissapear, just make sure that it's not BERMUDA GRASS. This stuff could give you a trail across the Atlantic :- ) bigeasyjock - Funny you should mention the "grass clippings" They're about the only thing I miss. I've got some cardboard here to make a new bed but I'm not going crazy over top soil just yet. |
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| You folks aren't frugal enough. Our lawn mower has been 'on vacation' since May. We had the cutting deck welded by 2 different folks, the first being somewhat haphazard. We have it back and hubby is slowly getting it back together. We are hoping it will actually work tomorrow. THis was complicated by us being busy rehabbing a rental property, so we keep having the tool or nut we need over there. Anyway, we haven't mowed anything since May. The black-eyed susans are blooming most beautifully all over the lawn, and purple prairie clover is growing in a big way on the paths through the orchard. So except for what the neighbors might think, no problem. NO fuel used at all. Marcia |
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| Still not frugal enough led_zep_rules, 14 years my cousin hasn't mown a lawn. SHEEP! 1/2 dozen on his 3 acres. Rotating 1 ram and 4 ewes, The extras available on his mowers too = every spring a few lamb as pure profit, a mutton roast every fall, a lot of great fertilizer available all the time and sheering the wool gives another pure profit. I love frugal that has returns like that!!!!! :) I want to live in the country again. |
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| I bought my place from my mom. Years ago we tried to have sheep here. We bought 3 sheep, or probably 1 sheep 3 times. We would catch a sheep from a neighbor's pasture (and I was the catcher, it was hard, and they smell bad), bring it home in the back of the station wagon somehow, and put it in a rickety pen. It would escape, we would get another sheep. Happened 3 times until we gave up. We paid for all three, although I suspect they just ran home to their friends (it was only a mile away.) So there can be a lot of energy expended fruitlessly in trying to get sheep. :-) We mow hardly any of our property, though, even now that the lawnmower works again. Mostly prairie around fruit trees, with lots of gardens and other trees. Lawns are really over-rated. (I collected a lot of the purple prairie clover seed to sell on ebay next spring.) Marcia |
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| First up: I admit my section isn't as big as those mentioned. However, my lawnmower is gathering spiderwebs because the only piece of lawn I've allowed to stay (for the dogs to loaf on) takes ten minutes to cut with hedging shears. The snips either get put around a nearby rose or are left to fall to feed the 'lawn'. For the rest - a gravel garden and heavily mulched beds with teeny access tracks. And a friend runs falabella horses. Tidy grass. Free manure. Cute company - and they don't need shearing. |
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This is the only lawn I have left. I mow it with a push reel mower and trim the edge with a large pair of scissors. The area beyond the sidewalk is the city parkway:
 No more lawn in the back. :-D
 Am I frugal enough? :-P |
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| OMGAWSH Marcia I ***SNORKED*** my drink when I read your post about getting the sheep. I had to clean off the keyboard real quick, Strawberry daqueri is so sticky. Sheep are very gregarious critters and do not like to be alone at all. Sorry you didn't know about raising sheep before you got 1. They have to herd even a small herd of 3 would have been alright. That shepard was a crooked man if he sold you a sheep and knew you weren't going to butcher it. Then sold it to you again and one last time. pitimpinai That is so beautiful. a NO MOW YARD!!! WOO HOO GOOD FOR YOU!!!! Frugal and beautiful. At $3 a gal for gas I won't be keeping a tidy trimmed lawn any more. I'm thinking of getting a few sheep. I'm inside the city limits so code enforcement is gonna B!^@% one way or another. |
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| I am not allowed to own any interesting animals. If I could I would get an alpaca. Although I have one of those push blade mowers. It is just not very cuddly. -Annette |
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| Hey colored thumb, sorry about you snorting your drink out. That happened once before that I know of, a distant relative we hadn't met yet was reading up on us on our web pages. He reported that he snorted coffee through his nose upon reading about my husband being hit by a guy with a 6 foot tall sign of Jesus. (The irony of it I guess.) Anyway, our lawn mower turned out not to have been reassembled just so, and is broken again. So guess we will save some more gas. Really wish it was working, because I want to start some more lasagna beds, and it is hard if you have 3 foot tall wildflowers and grass in the way. About the guy selling us the sheep, I think he was crooked because I am SURE those sheep (or that one sheep 3 times, couldn't really tell them apart) ran back home, yet he insisted we pay for all 3 sheep. He knew we were just going to have it just for making fertilizer out of grass. We sort of dabbled in farming. When I was little we had geese, then a pony, a few rabbits, later on chickens, etc. My mother must have worn a sign saying 'sucker' When she bought 6 Bantam chickens, 5 were roosters and 1 was a hen. (We wanted them for eggs, so . . .) Let me tell you, all the eggs were fertilized. We called her Mama Chicken for obvious reasons. She seemed very happy. I was only about 14 when I captured the sheep, it wasn't my idea. They didn't have the internet then to read up on such things. Marcia |
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